TSU football banned from postseason competition

Texas Southern University’s football team has been barred from postseason play in the 2012 football season, the university announced in a news release Friday.

In part, the release states:

Despite making significant improvements in its athletics program in recent years, Texas Southern University has learned that when the NCAA releases its annual Academic Progress Report, TSU’s football program failed to meet the required average score over the most recent four-year evaluation period for graduation rates.

On April 23, representatives from Texas Southern appeared before the NCAA Division 1 Academic Performance Program Level-Three Penalty and Access to Postseason Competition Committee. There they learned that the Tiger Football Program had received a four-year average score of 811 out of 1000. The NCAA standard rate is 930. As a result, the football team would be ineligible to participate in any postseason competition for the 2012-2013 football seasons, including but not limited to, the SWAC Championship Game and NCAA Division I FSC Football Championship.

Penalties for the University include the elimination of spring football practice and the spring game, loss of four hours of countable athletically related activities per week during the football team’s playing and practice season, and the loss of four hours of countable athletically related activities per week outside of the team’s playing and practice season. All lost hours must be replaced by hours of academic related activities.

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Do they have a football team? Coulda fooled me. Isn’t it about time to combine U of H and TSU? Look at the money that could be saved. And face it, TSU hasn’t exactly had stellar academic or leadership performance over the years. Time to throw in the towel.

I guess it’s not time for a lot of people that’ve said that, and if you don’t really know the true atmosphere of the school underneath problems, you don’t see everything that has been the reason for the school and the reasons for it to stay on it’s own which have been very good.

Worst idea ever. I for one don’t want high school students making UH look bad. Yes I called TSU students high schoolers because they act like kids. I’ve been there once and will NEVER go back after that day experience

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Texas Southern University has learned that when the NCAA releases its annual Academic Progress Report, TSU’s football program failed to meet the required average score over the most recent four-year evaluation period for graduation rates.
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They learned from somebody else about their academic score?

Shssh – They’re trying to shut down the football program and blame it on the NCAA.

Stop tring to combine a historically black university with a white college. Yes, or school had its problems just like any other school, but for years U of H had been wanting to expand onto Texas Southern. Let the school stay on its own.

As a proud senior at Texas Southern University, I am displeased with the circumstances that have led to the NCAA decision. We have a football team that won a championship in 2011. I stand by the NCAA decision because academics should come first. Our athletic director, Dr. Charles McClelland, would agree. However, that does not give people the right to bad-mouth a university that serves a large population of students who may not get the opportunity to attend a four-year university. In the four years that Dr. John M. Rudley has led this institution, I have seen a dramatic change. Academics are a priority. That is why he has overseen the conception and implementation of the Urban Academic Village, which is meant to retain the freshman class. In addition, a brand new multi-million dollar state-of-the-art science technology building is being built, more student housing is in the works, and we have just graduated our first set of students who have earned a B.S. in Maritime Transportation Management and Security. We have a second campus located in Northwest Harris County to help serve the needs in that area. There are many more things that Dr. Rudley has done and will put into motion while he is the president. I have full faith in his abilities. He has been able to guide us out of our financial woes of the past to put us on more solid financial footing. He has done his best to keep this school affordable to us. So, before people citizen us, please check the facts first. This is a wonderful and historic institution that I am proud to call home. When I walk across the stage on December 15, 2012, with my B.A. in English, I can sing the words to my alma mater with total pride.